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- American painter and filmmaker (1932–2025) (en)
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- Brooklyn, New York, U.S. (en)
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- Bill Creston (en)
- Circa 1984 (en)
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- Manhattan, New York, U.S. (en)
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- Bill Creston (en)
- William Z "Bill" Creston (en)
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- Painter, filmmaker, educator (en)
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- Samuel Creston (en)
- Selma Creston (en)
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- The Village Voice (en)
- "MoMA Department of Film Press Release." (en)
- A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Second Edition (en)
- Embattled Critic: Views on Modern Art (en)
- Under a Rock: A Memoir. (en)
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- 1960.0 (dbd:second)
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- On my Tenth Street tour during a presumably typical week of openings I saw nothing that would be much missed if obliterated ... To be merciless, at the Brata Gallery, John Krushenck's drawings seemed to me devoid of taste, talent or ideas, and his companion exhibitor, William Creston, working in scrubs of black ink, managed to be totally inept in a field where to be inept at all is next to impossible. (en)
- William Creston began to make films in the mid-seventies after working for twenty years as a painter. His works incorporate scripted scenes, fictionalized encounters, news items and New York footage. Creston presents screenings of Six Short Films , a Super-8 work with subjects ranging from trucks to a bar mitzvah; Open Seven Days a Week, Twenty-Four Hours a Day , New York City during America's bicentennial; Runner , an examination of city street culture; I Saw Where You Was Last Night , a series of scenes with scripted and unscripted dialogue; Peanut Butter , five short films; You Ever Hear of Wyatt Earp? , a succession of one-liners highlighting the filmmaker's absurd social observations; and the premiere of Coupons . (en)
- "A class that somehow attracted a group of like-minded people was the single video-production class. Sony had brought out a line of prosumer stuff in 1967, reel-to-reel video decks, and the school invested in a bunch of them. Our teacher was a very jovial guy named Bill Creston who lived in a great old loft that was over Billy's Topless bar on Sixth Avenue and Twenty-Fourth Street. Bill had been a taxi driver and painter in New York City before becoming a filmmaker. The video-production class was the first one ever at Visual Arts. We made the most of the Sony Portapaks, as they were called, running all over the city shooting and doing on-camera skits." (en)
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- 0001-05-08 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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- "Art Para-Visual" (en)
- "Creston, Bill " (en)
- "Tenth Street: A Report Without Recommendation for Mercy" (en)
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